This year my library automated with Surpass Software. We have an online catalog on the Internet, "Web Safari." It allows all sorts of fun features, like the ability for patrons to place reserves and write book reviews (a la Amazon). At the beginning of the year it was getting a fair amount of use, but as people get busy and the novelty wears off, it gets less.
I'd like to do a promotion to our teaching staff, to get them to write book reviews in the online catalog. We have a preschool and a congregational school - no day school. Has anyone ever done anything like this, an incentive program for teachers? My idea is to announce that during the month of April, any teacher who submits a review will receive a prize from the library. I was thinking of giving them each a dollar bill folded into an origami ring that you can wear on your finger. But I guess I'd have to then limit it to one book review per teacher or I'll go broke! If I buy them Starbucks gift certificates it could get pricy even faster. What sort of prizes would motivate adults to participate? Thanks for any ideas... Heidi Estrin Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel 2200 Yamato Road Boca Raton, FL 33431 (561) 241-8118 ext. 206 Fax (561) 241-1701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
